X-Perl UnitFrames

A much enchanced version of Nymbia's Perl UnitFrames, and a complete replacement for Blizzard's default unit frames, including raid frames and raid tools, with many additions and improvements over the original Nymbia code.

Range Finder (combined with optional health check) for all frames based on spell or item range test.

HoT Monitor will highlight units clearly that have your own active Heal over Time spells.

Debuff Highlights in standard debuff colours on all friendly frames. Priority given to show debuffs that YOU can cure first.

Raid Frames, buff icons, MT list units and some other portions or X-Perl are Created on demand. Saving a lot of time and memory at system startup. Defering the creation of many parts of X-Perl to when they are actually required. And of course, most often outside of raids they are never required and are never created.

Raid Target icon support for Target, Target's Target, MT Targets.

Raid tooltip will show combat rezzers available (druids with Rebirth ready (or very soon available) and any normal rezzers out of combat) if you bring up tooltip of a dead person.

3D Portraits for player, pet, target, focus, party. Optional. Of course this may degrade your framerate somewhat because you are displaying more 3D character models that without this option. But some like it pretty, and it does look cool.

Added time left on party member/target buffs/debuffs when in a raid, these depend somewhat on CTRA/oRA/oRA2 sending appropriate information over the addon channel, although some of it can be determined at run time by X-Perl, when a player gets a buff for example, we know how long it should last, and therefor when it should expire.

Totally new options window including all X-Perl options and access via minimap icon.

Much care has been taken with code size, memory load, memory usage per cycle and so on. LuaProfiler/OnEvent mods used extensively and regularly to ensure that X-Perl does not do more work than is absolutely necessary.

With that in mind, the event system was totally re-written, and is as kind to system performance as possible. The majority of events are disabled while zoning to alleviate any event backlog issues. And where most addons use 1 event handler per unit frame, which although standard, the alternative has improved X-Perl's performance. By using single main event handlers, we can route the events to appropriate units. So, for example, when a single UNIT_HEALTH update is fired, then just a single raid frame or party frame etc. gets the event, rather than 40 raid frame's handlers, 4 party and so on. Nymbia's Perl used to do a lot of crazy full frame udpates all over the place, eating away at CPU cycles. This was all fixed to only update what was necessary based on events.

Liberal usage of local functions to cut down compiled code size, and increase speed since functions are called directly rather than by name. Every time you have a global function, you have a global string name associated with it, so size in the global environment saved where possible.

XPerl_RaidHelper sub-addonAssists View
Will show anyone from raid assising you with your target, and can also show healers or all plus known enemies targetting you.
Tooltips for the same also available (on player and target frames) if you prefer to not use the main window.

MT Targets
Replaces CTRA/oRA2 MT Targets window, and doubles as a replacement for the Perl RaidFrames warrior targets.
Indicator shows which target you are on.
Frames will be coloured to show if tanks have duplicate targets.

XPerl_RaidMonitor sub-addon (WORK IN PROGRESS)Casting Monitor
Shows selected classes (defaults to healer classes) in a list (much like the MT List), but with some differences.
Shows mana bars and cast bars on left. Their targets on right. Health bar as normal, but a secondary small red bar on targets which shows the maximum single hit this unit has received since entering combat. The secondary bar will extend downwards from their current HP level down to as far as zero.
A green name on the targets indicates this is the same target that you have.
You can click on casters or their targets as expected.
For druids, right clicking on a caster will cast Innervate on them.
For shamans, right clicking on a caster will cast Mana Tide Totem. Check the * indicator to see if they're in your group.

All bars can be re-sized in X-Perl main options (Monitor section).

Totals can be toggled (from the 'T' minibutton at top of frame) which gives overview of raid mana status.

XPerl_RaidAdmin sub-addon (WORK IN PROGRESS)Raid Admin
Save/Load raid roster setups
Only does direct save and load for the moment, but more to come (templates and such).

Item Check
Replacement for /raitem /radur /raresist /rareg. Use the old commands before, or drop items in the left item list.
Query button will perform /raitem on all ticked items (query always includes dur and resists) and you can then view and review all the results whenever, without having to re-query each item.
Includes everyone in raid, so you don't have to work out who doesn't have items, it'll list them with 0 instead of no entry.
Active Scanner to check raid member's equipment for the item selected. So you can be sure that people actually have the item worn (Onyxia Cloak for example), without having to go round single target inspecting everyone who 'forgot' to install CTRA for the 50th raid in a row.

Originally posted by Jdtigg Just want to make sure, since you are not maintaining the package on WAU, are your updates when you release them will be included in this package so I will only have to update this one thing rather than the X-Perl list?

The package on teh SVN doesn't actually have a copy of XPerl, it just sets up some externals and re-orders the folders for downloading as a package.

Originally posted by Zeksie Sylvanaar made a the package up. Same result tho.

Just want to make sure, since you are not maintaining the package on WAU, are your updates when you release them will be included in this package so I will only have to update this one thing rather than the X-Perl list?

Originally posted by Kiriana Does anyone know if its possible to get clique to recognise the xperl raid frames been tryin to add them manually but cant seem to get that to work
everything works fine with the groups in xperl but once it switches to a raid nothing works :-(

Been using Clique myself since WoW 2.0, and it's never been an issue. Check the frames button in Clique to make sure you haven't turned off the raid frames by mistake. But they should all behave the same way as the other frames. The code is no different.

Since the patch and update etc, I don't have the actual health and mana amount on my target/focus frames just percentages. Prior to the patch it would show the actual amount on the health/mana bars and the percentage to the right side. I have checked the setup and the check box to show levels is checked but it is not showing up. Any ideas? TIA

Does anyone know if its possible to get clique to recognise the xperl raid frames been tryin to add them manually but cant seem to get that to work
everything works fine with the groups in xperl but once it switches to a raid nothing works :-(

This addon is highly susceptible to load order. However, load order can not be guaranteed unless you properly define dependencies. Otherwise, you are relying on the underlying Operating System to always load them in the same order (which is not the case under Linux/Windows/Mac in all cases).

An example of this in 2.4.1 is XPerl_RaidHelper. This addon clearly depends on XPerl (try loading it with XPerl disabled and you get errors abound). However, XPerl_RaidHelper does not define XPerl as a dependency, and if you try to load them under Linux (with both enabled) you still get errors.